Focus on learning from colleagues, reviewing your progress and being proactive in order to gain the attention of your manager, Monique Serbu writes. Also, remember that you represent your company's brand while attending networking events.
Stop comparing yourself to others and seeing success as an endpoint to become happier at work, Kat Boogaard writes. Be realistic, and understand you will have some bad days and occasionally you will need to handle boring tasks.
Traits of leaders with high emotional intelligence include being empathetic, positive and authentic, and they practice those traits whenever possible, writes Joel Garfinkle. "Beyond work, think of ways to apply yourself at home, in social and community situations," he writes.
To really make an impression in an interview, be clear on your career intentions, sell your strengths and show an interviewer you'll fit into the company culture, Adunola Adeshola writes. "No one wants to hire someone who's not absolutely positive they want to be there," she writes.
Salmonella genomes have been found in DNA samples taken from the teeth of 10 skeletons buried in Oaxaca, Mexico, providing evidence that the bacteria caused the "cocoliztli" epidemic in the 1500s in what is now Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. Researchers said Europeans carried the disease with them when they arrived in Mesoamerica.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all -- in which case, you fail by default.
